AKIANE

	•	Born underwater at home, on July 9, 1994, in Mount Morris, Illinois, to the atheistic stay-at-home Lithuanian homemaker mother, and an American father, chef and dietary manager.
	•	Lived in Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and Idaho, experiencing poverty and affluence.
	•	Having attended both public and private schools, now is home-schooled with her four brothers, Delfini 16, Jean Lu 14, Ilia 5 years old and Aurelius, her new baby brother
	•	Began drawing at 4, and painting at 6, teaching herself and learning mostly from her own keen observation and study.
	•	Speaks four languages: Lithuanian, Russian, English and Sign Language
	•	At 4, had a life-changing spiritual transformation, bringing the family to God.
	•	At age 7 began writing poetry and aphorisms.
	•	Her poems often arrive fully conceived.
	•	The inspiration for her art and literature comes from her visions, dreams, observations of people,  nature and God.
	•	Paints from imagination, reference materials and models.
	•	Favorite size canvases: 48 x 60 inches.
	•	Considers her style: Akianism - a universal blend of realism and imaginism
	•	Wants people to find hope in her paintings.
	•	Has the same goal with each painting: to be inspiration for others and to be the gift to God.
	•	Favorite medium: acrylics for full figures, and oil paints for large portraits.
	•	Rises at 4 a.m. five-six days a week to get ready to paint in the studio and write; works for about 4-5 hours each day.
	•	Often works over a hundred to two hundred hours on a painting, producing 8 to 20 paintings a year.
	•	Usually makes many sketches before painting.
	•	Works on one painting at a time.
	•	Favorite subject: people and spiritual subjects.
	•	Has "start-to-finish" demonstration videos of her painting.
	•	Favorite activities and hobbies: art, poetry, piano, reading and helping people.
	•	Likes about herself: "sensitivity to people".
	•	Does not like about herself: "impatience".
	•	Assesses her own character: "daring heart and cautious mind".
	•	Her biggest wish: "that everyone would love God and one another".
	•	Her life goal: to share her love for God and people around the world.

The Pyramids …In one of my dreams I saw the image of white pyramids  beaten by the ocean waves and surrounded by live bubbles.  Unlike most of my paintings,  I had no idea what those symbols meant, but I painted them anyway.  Today the meaning still remains a riddle...